How Is Partisan Gerrymandering Unfair?

Gerrymandering & Fair Representation - Brennan Center for Justice

Gerrymandering, the practice of drawing districts to favor one political party or racial group, skews election results, makes races less competitive.

How Is Partisan Gerrymandering Unfair? - jstor

Republican-controlled state governments in the United States engaged in a nationally coordinated effort of unprecedented scale to gerrymander elec-.

How Is Partisan Gerrymandering Unfair? - Beitz - Wiley Online Library

The districting system is required to satisfy “one person, one vote” (OPOV) and districts must be geographically contiguous. Imagine a “base” ...

Extreme Gerrymanders - Issue One

Gerrymandering is the intentional practice of manipulating the boundaries of congressional districts to provide an unfair advantage for a ...

Gerrymandering Explained | Brennan Center for Justice

Gerrymandering is deeply undemocratic. Every 10 years, states redraw their legislative and congressional district lines following the census.

How Partisan Gerrymandering Limits Voting Rights

In an effort to hold on to power, state legislators who won their elections due to gerrymandering are making it harder for Americans to vote.

Biggest problem with gerrymandering - Harvard Gazette

They found the tactic used by parties to gain a numerical advantage in Congress was widespread during the 2020 redistricting cycle, yet its ...

What is gerrymandering and why is it problematic?

In most states, the drawing of congressional and legislative districts is handled by state legislatures. That creates a strong incentive for ...

Unfairness-of-Partisan-Gerrymandering-for-Berkeley.pdf

Republican-controlled state governments engaged in a coordinated effort of unprecedented scale to gerrymander election districts for state ...

The Impact of Partisan Gerrymandering

Last May, the Center for American Progress published a report that found that unfairly drawn congressional districts shifted, on average, a ...

Understanding Gerrymandering: How It Impacts Elections and Voting

Partisan gerrymandering refers to the practice of changing electoral district boundaries for political gain. One political party will draw voting district ...

Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap - Chicago Unbound

relative wasted votes. See Eric McGhee, Measuring Partisan Bias in Single-Member District Electoral Systems,. 39 LEGIS. STUD. Q. 55, 68 (2014) ...

PR Library: How Proportional Representation Would Finally Solve ...

In a very real way, then, the political manipulation of district lines devalues the vote and undermines the democratic process. Describing the redistricting ...

How Can We Combat Gerrymandering? | Campaign Legal Center

Below we will focus on three solutions to gerrymandering: using web tools to identify gerrymandered maps, establishing independent redistricting commissions ( ...

Effects of Gerrymandering on State Social Policy

The redistricting method was related to the direction and intensity of partisan bias. The results indicate gerrymandering of state districts ...

Fair Maps 2030: Making redistricting inclusive, transparent, and ...

The Fair Maps 2030 campaign supports ballot initiatives, legislation, litigation, and public education to ensure that the drawing of voting districts is ...

ArtIII.S2.C1.9.9 Political Process, Elections, and Gerrymandering

Partisan gerrymandering is the practice of dividing a geographic area into electoral districts, often of highly irregular shape, to give one political party an ...

This is gerrymandering at its worst. It doesn't have to be this way.

Maps in North Carolina, Illinois, Texas and Alabama show the worst gerrymandering sins. They can be fixed.

Gerrymandering | Definition, Litigation, & Facts | Britannica

Gerrymandering, in U.S. politics, the practice of drawing the boundaries of electoral districts in a way that gives one political party an ...

John Roberts Says Partisan Gerrymandering Is Not His Problem

In a crushing blow to voting-rights advocates, the Supreme Court today ruled that claims of partisan gerrymandering are outside its purview.